Breeches-buoy.



PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906,

J. W. DALTON. BREEGHES B'UOY.

APPLICATION FYILED JUNE 12, 1906.

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JOHN WILFRED DALTON, OF SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DALTONLIFE-SAVING APPLIANCE CO., A CORPORATIONOF MASSA- CHUSETTS.

BREECHES-BUOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Deals, 1906.

Application filed June 12. 1906- Serial No. 321,418.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WILFRED DAL- TON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Sandwich, in the county of Barnstable andCommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Breeches-Buoys, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for its object the improvement of the breeches-buoyand the provision of means whereby the operation of the same may be mademore certain and eflicient.

It is a matter of great difficulty in using the breeches-buoy undercertain conditions for the life-saving crew on shore to tell whether thebreeches-buoy is occupied after it has been hauled out to the wreck. Itsometimes happens that after being sent out the breeches-buoy will bestarted ashore again before the passenger has had an opportunity toreach and enter it. To this end I have devised a certain means forsignaling when the passenger takes his place in the breeches-buoy by theautomatic change of the light with which the buoy is equipped.

The construction and arrangement of the light and buoy will be morefully disclosed in the specification which follows and in the drawingswhich form a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a view of abreeches-buoy, partially in section, equipped with my device; and Fig. 2is a view of my light with the front removed.

1 is the usual ring of the traveler-block from which the breeches-buoy2, provided with the breeches 3, is suspended by the lanyards 4.

5 is a source of light suspended, preferably, from the ring of thetraveler-block directly over the breeches-buoy. This source of light maybe of any sort, that shown being a storage-battery lamp having anincandescent bulb 6.

7 is a color-screen mounted on an arm 8 pivoted at 9. The arm 8 isweighted at 10 to maintain it normally in a displaced position, and aspring 11, connected at one end to the opposite end 14 of the arm 8 andat the other end to a pin 12 on the lamp, assists and makes more certainthe return of the arm to displace the screen.

13 is a pull attached to the end 14 of the lever. The pull 13 passes outthrough the bottom of the lamp and is guided through a tube 15 along oneof the lanyards 4 to the buoy 2, across which it is stretched andattached to the opposite side. This disposes across the seat of thebreeches a loop 13, raised slightly above the same, so that when apassenger enter the breeches the loop 13 will be depressed and the pulloperated to move the arm 8 and bring the screen 7 over the light 6. Ifthe light 6, therefore, is a white light and the screen 7 is a redscreen, as soon as the breeches are occupied the light 5 will changefrom a white to a red light and remain red as long as the passenger isseated in the buoy. As soon as the passenger, however, is removed fromthe buoy and the pressure is taken from the loop 13 the weighted leverwill drop, displacing the red screen and displaying the white light.

It is obvious that the pull may be of other constructions than thatshown and the arrangement of light and screen may be modified, it onlybeing necessary that the light be varied and that the change be broughtabout by some connection operated by the occupancy of the breeches by apassenger.

What I therefore claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a breeches-buoy, a source of light and means for changing thecolor of the light when the breeches are occupied.

2. In a breeches-bony, a source of light, and an operative connectionwith the breeches for changing the color of the-light when the breechesare occupied.

3. In a breeches-buoy, a source of light and means for modifying thelight when the breeches are occupied. r

4. In a breeches-buoy, a source of light, a screen for said light andmeans connected with said breeches for operating the screen when thebreeches are occupied.

5. In a breeches-buoy, the combination with the breeches, of a source oflight, a normally displaced screen, and an operative connection betweenthe breeches and the said screen whereby saidlight will be covered bysaid screen when said breeches are occupied.

6. In a breeches-buoy, the combination with the breeches, of a source oflight, a screen, and operating means connected with said screen wherebysaid screen will be moved when said breeches are occupied.

and an operative connection between said 7. In aibreeches-buoy, thecombination of l 9. Ina breeches-buoy, the combination. of a source oflight, a normally displaced screen,

a source of light, a normally displaced screen, and a pull connectingsaid screen with the screen and the breeches whereby said screenbreeches and adapted to move said screen will be moved over said lightwhen the 5 over said light when the breeches are occubreeches areoccupied. i pied.

8. In a breeches-buoy, the combination 3 In testimony whereof I a'fIiXmy signature with the breeches, of a source of light, a 1 in presence oftwo witnesses. screen, and a pull connected with said screen JOHNWVILFRED DALTON.

and disposed across the breeches whereby said WVitnesses: screen Wlll bemoved when said breeches are i WALTER L. CANN, occupied. WM. B. Poon.

